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Friday, March 05, 2010

Caption Competition

You may have read that Google has turned on automatic "English language" captions on YouTube. Hmm. Watch the video above and read the captions below. "A video owner can download the auto-captions, clean them up, and upload a corrected transcript." Not that automatic then. How do you turn this option off (or, since we're talking Google here, can you)?

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